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NAME

       Tk::options - Standard options supported by widgets and their manipulation

SYNOPSIS

           $value = $widget->cget('-option');

           $widget->configure(-option=>value ?,-option=>value ...?);

           @list = $widget->configure('-option');

           @lol = $widget->configure;

DESCRIPTION

       All widgets, and images have a standard mechanism for setting and querying attibutes or
       options. The mechanism is based on two methods configure and cget. The behaviour of these
       methods is as follows:

       $widget->configure(-option=>value ?,-option=>value ...?);
           Sets the values of -option to value for each -option=>value pair. The internal new
           method does an implicit configure in this form with options passed in at widget create
           time.

       $widget->configure('-option')
           In array context returns a list of five or two elements.  If -option is an alias for
           another options it return a list consisting of the alias option and the name for the
           option is is an alias for, e.g., "('-bg', 'background')".  If -option is not an alias
           the returned list has the following five elements:

           Option Name
                   The value of -option, e.g., -background.

           Name    The option's name in the option database, e.g., "background".

           Class   The option's class value in the option database, e.g., "Background".

           Default The default value for the option if not specified or in the option database,
                   e.g., "grey".

           Value   The current value (as returned by cget), e.g., "white".

       $widget->configure
           Returns a list of lists for all the options supported by $widget.  Each sub-list is in
           the form returned by configure('-option').  (This mechanism is used by the Tk::Derived
           class to determine the options available from base class.)

       $widget->cget('-option')
           Returns the current value of -option for $widget.

           cget('-option') is clumsy with the need for '' due to perl's parsing rules. Something
           more subtle using tie might look better.

       The following paragraphs describe the common configuration options supported by widgets in
       the Tk toolkit.  Every widget does not necessarily support every option (see the the
       documentation entries for individual widgets for a list of the standard options supported
       by that widget), but if a widget does support an option with one of the names listed
       below, then the option has exactly the effect described below.

       In the descriptions below, ``Name'' refers to the option's name in the option database.
       ``Class'' refers to the option's class value in the option database.  ``Switch'' refers to
       the switch used in widget-creation and configure widget methods to set this value. For
       example, if an option's configure option is -foreground and there exists a widget $widget,
       then the call:

           $widget->configure(-foreground=>'black')

       may be used to specify the value black for the option in the widget $widget.  Configure
       options may be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is unambiguous (abbreviation is
       deprecated in perl/Tk).

   Creation options: Widget Name and Class
       The Name and -class options can only be specified when a widget is created, and cannot be
       changed with configure.  These options determine the widget's identity and how Tk applies
       resource values from the option database (see Tk::option) and so they cannot be assigned
       by the options database.

       Name:     name
       Switch:   Name
           Specifies the path element for the widget.  Names generally begin with a lowercase
           letter.

           Each widget has a unique pathname that follows the hierarchy from the MainWindow to
           the widget itself.  Since the widget's PathName is used to assign options from the
           options database, it is important to specify a distinctive Name for any widget that
           will have non-default options.  See Tk::option for details.

       Name:     class
       Switch:   -class
           Specifies a class for the window.  Classes generally begin with an uppercase letter.

           This class will be used when querying the option database for the window's other
           options (see Tk::options), and it will also be used later for other purposes such as
           bindings.  One typically assigns a class to a TopLevel or Frame so that the class will
           apply to all of that widget's children.

   Reconfigurable options
       These options can be set at widget creation or changed later via configure.

       Name:     activeBackground
       Class:    Foreground
       Switch:   -activebackground
           Specifies background color to use when drawing active elements.  An element (a widget
           or portion of a widget) is active if the mouse cursor is positioned over the element
           and pressing a mouse button will cause some action to occur.  If strict Motif
           compliance has been requested by setting the $Tk::strictMotif variable, this option
           will normally be ignored;  the normal background color will be used instead.  For some
           elements on Windows and Macintosh systems, the active color will only be used while
           mouse button 1 is pressed over the element.

       Name:     activeBorderWidth
       Class:    BorderWidth
       Switch:   -activeborderwidth
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the 3-D border drawn around
           active elements.  See above for definition of active elements.  The value may have any
           of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.  This option is typically only available in
           widgets displaying more than one element at a time (e.g. menus but not buttons).

       Name:     activeForeground
       Class:    Background
       Switch:   -activeforeground
           Specifies foreground color to use when drawing active elements.  See above for
           definition of active elements.

       Name:     activetile
       Class:    Tile
       Switch:   -activetile
           Specifies image used to display inside active elements of the widget.  See above for
           definition of active elements.

       Name:     anchor
       Class:    Anchor
       Switch:   -anchor
           Specifies how the information in a widget (e.g. text or a bitmap) is to be displayed
           in the widget.  Must be one of the values n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw, or center.  For
           example, nw means display the information such that its top-left corner is at the top-
           left corner of the widget.

       Name:     background
       Class:    Background
       Switch:   -background
       Alias:    -bg
           Specifies the normal background color to use when displaying the widget.

       Name:     bitmap
       Class:    Bitmap
       Switch:   -bitmap
           Specifies a bitmap to display in the widget, in any of the forms acceptable to
           Tk_GetBitmap.  The exact way in which the bitmap is displayed may be affected by other
           options such as -anchor or -justify.  Typically, if this option is specified then it
           overrides other options that specify a textual value to display in the widget; the
           -bitmap option may be reset to an empty string to re-enable a text display.  In
           widgets that support both -bitmap and -image options, -image will usually override
           -bitmap.

       Name:     borderWidth
       Class:    BorderWidth
       Switch:   -borderwidth
       Alias:    -bd
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the 3-D border to draw around
           the outside of the widget (if such a border is being drawn;  the relief option
           typically determines this).  The value may also be used when drawing 3-D effects in
           the interior of the widget.  The value may have any of the forms acceptable to
           Tk_GetPixels.

       Name:     compound
       Class:    Compound
       Switch:   -compound
           Specifies if the widget should display text and bitmaps/images at the same time, and
           if so, where the bitmap/image should be placed relative to the text. Must be one of
           the values none, bottom, top, left, right, or center. For example, the (default) value
           none specifies that the bitmap or image should (if defined) be displayed instead of
           the text, the value left specifies that the bitmap or image should be displayed to the
           left of the text, and the value center specifies that the bitmap or image should be
           displayed on top of the text.

       Name:     cursor
       Class:    Cursor
       Switch:   -cursor
           Specifies the mouse cursor to be used for the widget.  The value may have any of the
           forms acceptable to Tk_GetCursor.

       Name:     dash
       Class:    Dash
       Switch:   -dash
           The value may have any of the forms accepted by Tk_GetDash, such as 4, [6,4], ., -,
           -., or -...

       Name:     dashoffset
       Class:    Dashoffset
       Switch:   -dashoffset
           Specifies the offset in the dash list where the drawing starts.

       Name:     disabledForeground
       Class:    DisabledForeground
       Switch:   -disabledforeground
           Specifies foreground color to use when drawing a disabled element.  If the option is
           specified as an empty string (which is typically the case on monochrome displays),
           disabled elements are drawn with the normal foreground color but they are dimmed by
           drawing them with a stippled fill pattern.

       Name:     disabledtile
       Class:    Tile
       Switch:   -disabledtile
           Specifies image to use when drawing a disabled element.

       Name:     exportSelection
       Class:    ExportSelection
       Switch:   -exportselection
           Specifies whether or not a selection in the widget should also be the X selection.
           The value may have any of the forms accepted by Tcl_GetBoolean, such as true, false,
           0, 1, yes, or no.  If the selection is exported, then selecting in the widget
           deselects the current X selection, selecting outside the widget deselects any widget
           selection, and the widget will respond to selection retrieval requests when it has a
           selection.  The default is usually for widgets to export selections.

       Name:     font
       Class:    Font
       Switch:   -font
           Specifies the font to use when drawing text inside the widget.

       Name:     foreground
       Class:    Foreground
       Switch:   -foreground
       Alias:    -fg
           Specifies the normal foreground color to use when displaying the widget.

       Name:     highlightBackground
       Class:    HighlightBackground
       Switch:   -highlightbackground
           Specifies the color to display in the traversal highlight region when the widget does
           not have the input focus.

       Name:     highlightColor
       Class:    HighlightColor
       Switch:   -highlightcolor
           Specifies the color to use for the traversal highlight rectangle that is drawn around
           the widget when it has the input focus.

       Name:     highlightThickness
       Class:    HighlightThickness
       Switch:   -highlightthickness
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the highlight rectangle to draw
           around the outside of the widget when it has the input focus.  The value may have any
           of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.  If the value is zero, no focus highlight is
           drawn around the widget.

       Name:     image
       Class:    Image
       Switch:   -image
           Specifies an image to display in the widget, which must have been created with an
           image create. (See Tk::Image for details of image creation.)  Typically, if the -image
           option is specified then it overrides other options that specify a bitmap or textual
           value to display in the widget; the -image option may be reset to an empty string to
           re-enable a bitmap or text display.

       Name:     insertBackground
       Class:    Foreground
       Switch:   -insertbackground
           Specifies the color to use as background in the area covered by the insertion cursor.
           This color will normally override either the normal background for the widget (or the
           selection background if the insertion cursor happens to fall in the selection).

       Name:     insertBorderWidth
       Class:    BorderWidth
       Switch:   -insertborderwidth
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the 3-D border to draw around
           the insertion cursor.  The value may have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.

       Name:     insertOffTime
       Class:    OffTime
       Switch:   -insertofftime
           Specifies a non-negative integer value indicating the number of milliseconds the
           insertion cursor should remain ``off'' in each blink cycle.  If this option is zero
           then the cursor doesn't blink:  it is on all the time.

       Name:     insertOnTime
       Class:    OnTime
       Switch:   -insertontime
           Specifies a non-negative integer value indicating the number of milliseconds the
           insertion cursor should remain ``on'' in each blink cycle.

       Name:     insertWidth
       Class:    InsertWidth
       Switch:   -insertwidth
           Specifies a  value indicating the total width of the insertion cursor.  The value may
           have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.  If a border has been specified for
           the insertion cursor (using the insertBorderWidth option), the border will be drawn
           inside the width specified by the insertWidth option.

       Name:     jump
       Class:    Jump
       Switch:   -jump
           For widgets with a slider that can be dragged to adjust a value, such as scrollbars,
           this option determines when notifications are made about changes in the value.  The
           option's value must be a boolean of the form accepted by Tcl_GetBoolean.  If the value
           is false, updates are made continuously as the slider is dragged.  If the value is
           true, updates are delayed until the mouse button is released to end the drag;  at that
           point a single notification is made (the value ``jumps'' rather than changing
           smoothly).

       Name:     justify
       Class:    Justify
       Switch:   -justify
           When there are multiple lines of text displayed in a widget, this option determines
           how the lines line up with each other.  Must be one of left, center, or right.  Left
           means that the lines' left edges all line up, center means that the lines' centers are
           aligned, and right means that the lines' right edges line up.

       Name:     offset
       Class:    Offset
       Switch:   -offset
           Specifies the offset of tiles (see also -tile option). It can have two different
           formats -offset x,y or -offset side, where side can be n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w, nw, or
           center. In the first case the origin is the origin of the toplevel of the current
           window.  For the canvas itself and canvas objects the origin is the canvas origin, but
           putting # in front of the coordinate pair indicates using the toplevel origin in
           stead. For canvas objects, the -offset option is used for stippling as well.  For the
           line and polygon canvas items you can also specify an index as argument, which
           connects the stipple or tile origin to one of the coordinate points of the
           line/polygon.

       Name:     orient
       Class:    Orient
       Switch:   -orient
           For widgets that can lay themselves out with either a horizontal or vertical
           orientation, such as scrollbars, this option specifies which orientation should be
           used.  Must be either horizontal or vertical or an abbreviation of one of these.

       Name:     padX
       Class:    Pad
       Switch:   -padx
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to request for the
           widget in the X-direction.  The value may have any of the forms acceptable to
           Tk_GetPixels.  When computing how large a window it needs, the widget will add this
           amount to the width it would normally need (as determined by the width of the things
           displayed in the widget);  if the geometry manager can satisfy this request, the
           widget will end up with extra internal space to the left and/or right of what it
           displays inside.  Most widgets only use this option for padding text:  if they are
           displaying a bitmap or image, then they usually ignore padding options.

       Name:     padY
       Class:    Pad
       Switch:   -pady
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating how much extra space to request for the
           widget in the Y-direction.  The value may have any of the forms acceptable to
           Tk_GetPixels.  When computing how large a window it needs, the widget will add this
           amount to the height it would normally need (as determined by the height of the things
           displayed in the widget);  if the geometry manager can satisfy this request, the
           widget will end up with extra internal space above and/or below what it displays
           inside.  Most widgets only use this option for padding text:  if they are displaying a
           bitmap or image, then they usually ignore padding options.

       Name:     relief
       Class:    Relief
       Switch:   -relief
           Specifies the 3-D effect desired for the widget.  Acceptable values are raised,
           sunken, flat, ridge, solid, and groove.  The value indicates how the interior of the
           widget should appear relative to its exterior;  for example, raised means the interior
           of the widget should appear to protrude from the screen, relative to the exterior of
           the widget.

       Name:     repeatDelay
       Class:    RepeatDelay
       Switch:   -repeatdelay
           Specifies the number of milliseconds a button or key must be held down before it
           begins to auto-repeat.  Used, for example, on the up- and down-arrows in scrollbars.

       Name:     repeatInterval
       Class:    RepeatInterval
       Switch:   -repeatinterval
           Used in conjunction with repeatDelay:  once auto-repeat begins, this option determines
           the number of milliseconds between auto-repeats.

       Name:     selectBackground
       Class:    Foreground
       Switch:   -selectbackground
           Specifies the background color to use when displaying selected items.

       Name:     selectBorderWidth
       Class:    BorderWidth
       Switch:   -selectborderwidth
           Specifies a non-negative value indicating the width of the 3-D border to draw around
           selected items.  The value may have any of the forms acceptable to Tk_GetPixels.

       Name:     selectForeground
       Class:    Background
       Switch:   -selectforeground
           Specifies the foreground color to use when displaying selected items.

       Name:     setGrid
       Class:    SetGrid
       Switch:   -setgrid
           Specifies a boolean value that determines whether this widget controls the resizing
           grid for its top-level window.  This option is typically used in text widgets, where
           the information in the widget has a natural size (the size of a character) and it
           makes sense for the window's dimensions to be integral numbers of these units.  These
           natural window sizes form a grid.  If the setGrid option is set to true then the
           widget will communicate with the window manager so that when the user interactively
           resizes the top-level window that contains the widget, the dimensions of the window
           will be displayed to the user in grid units and the window size will be constrained to
           integral numbers of grid units.  See "GRIDDED GEOMETRY MANAGEMENT" in Tk::Wm for more
           details.

       Name:     takeFocus
       Class:    TakeFocus
       Switch:   -takefocus
           Determines whether the window accepts the focus during keyboard traversal (e.g., Tab
           and Shift-Tab).  Before setting the focus to a window, the traversal scripts consult
           the value of the takeFocus option.  A value of 0 means that the window should be
           skipped entirely during keyboard traversal.  1 means that the window should receive
           the input focus as long as it is viewable (it and all of its ancestors are mapped).
           An empty value for the option means that the traversal scripts make the decision about
           whether or not to focus on the window:  the current algorithm is to skip the window if
           it is disabled, if it has no key bindings, or if it is not viewable.  If the value has
           any other form, then the traversal scripts take the value, append the name of the
           window to it (with a separator space), and evaluate the resulting string as a
           Callback.  The script must return 0, 1, or an empty string:  a 0 or 1 value specifies
           whether the window will receive the input focus, and an empty string results in the
           default decision described above.  Note: this interpretation of the option is defined
           entirely by the Callbacks that implement traversal:  the widget implementations ignore
           the option entirely, so you can change its meaning if you redefine the keyboard
           traversal scripts.

       Name:     text
       Class:    Text
       Switch:   -text
           Specifies a string to be displayed inside the widget.  The way in which the string is
           displayed depends on the particular widget and may be determined by other options,
           such as anchor or justify.

       Name:     textVariable
       Class:    Variable
       Switch:   -textvariable
           Specifies the name of a variable.  The value of the variable is a text string to be
           displayed inside the widget;  if the variable value changes then the widget will
           automatically update itself to reflect the new value.  The way in which the string is
           displayed in the widget depends on the particular widget and may be determined by
           other options, such as anchor or justify.

       Name:     tile
       Class:    Tile
       Switch:   -tile
           Specifies image used to display the widget. If image is the empty string, then the
           normal background color is displayed.

       Name:     troughColor
       Class:    Background
       Switch:   -troughcolor
           Specifies the color to use for the rectangular trough areas in widgets such as
           scrollbars and scales.

       Name:     troughTile
       Class:    Tile
       Switch:   -troughtile
           Specifies image used to display in the rectangular trough areas in widgets such as
           scrollbars and scales.

       Name:     underline
       Class:    Underline
       Switch:   -underline
           Specifies the integer index of a character to underline in the widget.  This option is
           used by the default bindings to implement keyboard traversal for menu buttons and menu
           entries.  0 corresponds to the first character of the text displayed in the widget, 1
           to the next character, and so on.

       Name:     wrapLength
       Class:    WrapLength
       Switch:   -wraplength
           For widgets that can perform word-wrapping, this option specifies the maximum line
           length.  Lines that would exceed this length are wrapped onto the next line, so that
           no line is longer than the specified length.  The value may be specified in any of the
           standard forms for screen distances.  If this value is less than or equal to 0 then no
           wrapping is done:  lines will break only at newline characters in the text.

       Name:     xScrollCommand
       Class:    ScrollCommand
       Switch:   -xscrollcommand
           Specifies a callback used to communicate with horizontal scrollbars.  When the view in
           the widget's window changes (or whenever anything else occurs that could change the
           display in a scrollbar, such as a change in the total size of the widget's contents),
           the widget will make a callback passing two numeric arguments in addition to any
           specified in the callback.  Each of the numbers is a fraction between 0 and 1, which
           indicates a position in the document.  0 indicates the beginning of the document, 1
           indicates the end, .333 indicates a position one third the way through the document,
           and so on.  The first fraction indicates the first information in the document that is
           visible in the window, and the second fraction indicates the information just after
           the last portion that is visible.  Typically the xScrollCommand option consists of the
           scrollbar widget object and the method ``set'' i.e. [set => $sb]: this will cause the
           scrollbar to be updated whenever the view in the window changes.  If this option is
           not specified, then no command will be executed.

       Name:     yScrollCommand
       Class:    ScrollCommand
       Switch:   -yscrollcommand
           Specifies a calback used to communicate with vertical scrollbars.  This option is
           treated in the same way as the xScrollCommand option, except that it is used for
           vertical scrollbars and is provided by widgets that support vertical scrolling.  See
           the description of xScrollCommand for details on how this option is used.

SEE ALSO

       Tk::option Tk::callbacks Tk::ConfigSpecs Tk_GetPixels

KEYWORDS

       class, name, standard option, switch